Italian film by Luchino Visconti adaptation of the 1948 novel by Giovanni Verga. It is the first part of the trilogy on Sicily and the story of the struggle of a fisherman and his family to break free from the exploitation of fishery wholesalers.
It is projected in VOSE and is part of the cinema cycle The other islands of the Archduke, organized by the Arxiu del So i la Image, Obra Social y BMN.
